identify hard drive space
 

this one should be pretty easy. i just installed a new hard drive on rh9 and want to make sure i can use it. i know the original works, but how do i see the new one? and... i could also stand to know how to partition it since the OS is already installed on the other. thank you for your support.

how is the drive connected..i.e. primary slave, secondary master..etc. i ask because it will make a difference w/the drive letter. you should be able to

cfdisk /dev/hdx (where x is the drive letter of the new drive)

for reference the letters should follow

primary master = hda
primary slave = hdb
secondary master = hdc
secondary slave = hdd

once you format the drive w/a file system, you'll need to create a mount point

cd /mnt
mkdir hdx (where x is the drive letter of the new drive)

so now you should have a /mnt/hdx directory.

also make an entry in fstab to mount the drive at boot.
good luck.

i put the pin in to be the slave, the first drive has no pin at all. so i'm hoping it will show as the primary slave

that should make it /dev/hdb, reference my earlier post.
good luck.

cfdisk /dev/hdb gives me "command not found"
fdisk /dev/hdb gives me "Unable to open /dev/hdb"
i was able to make directory for hdb in /mtn, and it shows the cdrom and now hdb, but how do i know its actually the new hard drive?

is the drive recognized in your bios? it may be the jumper settings, it may be that you first have to get the drive recognized in bios.

Yeah, and after that is the partitioning and mounting. Just check the list of devices that your BIOS [ushould[/u] give you at startup, or enter the BIOS setup to view them if it doesn't show anything.